Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Enterprise Architecture strategy, target architecture, and multi-year roadmap across Retail and Corporate Digital Banking.

• Define and govern architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns across business, application, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, and security domains.

• Chair or lead architecture review and design authority activities, ensuring solution designs meet functional and non-functional requirements before implementation.

• Guide architecture for key banking capabilities, including digital channels, onboarding, deposits, payments, cards, lending and LOS, transaction banking, corporate banker portals, customer servicing, and core banking integration.

• Drive modernization and simplification of the technology landscape through APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, cloud-native platforms, and controlled legacy-system transformation.

• Ensure solutions meet requirements for scalability, performance, availability, resilience, cybersecurity, data protection, regulatory compliance, interoperability, observability, and cost efficiency.

• Partner with Product, Business, Engineering, Data, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Group Technology to translate strategic priorities into executable architecture roadmaps.

• Manage architecture governance, technology standards, exception processes, application lifecycle, technical debt, and architecture risks across the portfolio.

• Lead and coach solution architects, domain architects, technical leads, vendors, and outsourced partners while ensuring design quality, documentation, and knowledge transfer.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and support technology investment, build-versus-buy, platform selection, vendor assessment, and strategic sourcing decisions.

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Enterprise Architecture, or a related discipline.

• Minimum 15 years of experience in software development, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, or technology delivery within banking or financial services.

• Familiar working with at least 1 popular Core Banking Solution

• At least 3 years of experience in a similar leadership position, such as Head of Architecture, Enterprise Architect, Chief Architect, or Lead Solution Architect.

• Strong experience designing and modernizing Retail and Corporate Digital Banking platforms and customer journeys in a regulated banking environment.

• Deep understanding of banking technology domains, including core banking, digital channels, payments, cards, deposits, lending and LOS, transaction banking, integration platforms, CRM, and data platforms.

• Strong architecture knowledge of cloud-native applications, microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, distributed systems, integration patterns, identity and access management, and data architecture.

• Experience establishing architecture governance, design authorities, reference architectures, technology standards, roadmaps, and application lifecycle management.

• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and modelling practices such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, capability mapping, and architecture repository management; relevant certification is preferred.

• Solid understanding of cybersecurity, technology risk, data privacy, regulatory compliance, operational resilience, disaster recovery, performance, and non-functional requirements.

• Proven leadership, strategic thinking, stakeholder management, communication, vendor management, and decision-making capabilities with senior business and technology executives.

With operations that span 15 different markets across the region, the opportunity to expand your experience, test your capabilities, and exhibit your resilience is ample. #teamCIMB is always keen to welcome the ones who are ready to make that very special difference – for themselves and the bank.